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positive results,” said Joe Thompson, MD, MPH, who served as the Surgeon General of Arkansas from 2005 to 2015. That sounds well and good, but maybe Arkansas’ success was an outlier. Nope, not at all. In Kentucky, Medicaid expansion added 12,000 new jobs, cut uncompensated care losses by 55 percent, and added $300 million to state coffers. Louisiana added 19,000 jobs and $103 million in new state tax dollars. The list goes on, but you get the idea.

Bottom line: the Federal Government is offering to pay 90 percent of our Medicaid costs. This will save hospitals, jobs, and actually add to our economy. Why won’t Alabama legislators take the win?